New AdWords options for iPhone and G1 — Today, the Google mobile ads team is announcing a new campaign-level option that allows those of you who are AdWords advertisers to show your desktop text and image ads on the iPhone, the T-Mobile G1, and other mobile devices with full (HTML) Internet browsers.

Google's search ads arrive on iPhone, G1 — The iPhone and T-Mobile G1 come with pretty much full-fledged Web browsers, and Google now is according them that status by showing search ads on the phones. — Advertisers bidding for search ads through Google's AdWords service now can choose …

$99 Wal-Mart iPhone Seems Unlikely — Last week, Boy Genius Report cited an unconfirmed source that Wal-Mart may begin selling a 4GB iPhone for only $99. Based on available Wal-Mart training materials and advertising (pictured above) we've received, however, it seems that this rumor is unlikely.

PlayStation fiends finally get a second life — Escape the relatives this Christmas by losing yourself in Sony's long-awaited virtual world — The annual battle of the consoles that takes place every Christmas will heat up this week when Sony launches its own version of Second Life for the PlayStation 3.

Netflix Arrives on TiVo Today — Hot on the heels of a system software update, and as promised, TiVo Series 3, HD, and HD XL subscribers who also partake in an unlimited Netflix plan will be able to stream a wide variety of video content at no additional cost:

Link by Link: The Freedoms That Technologies Help Bring — AMONG international outrages, depriving citizens of personalized maps seems far down on the list. — Still, that was the condition put on the introduction of Apple's 3G iPhone in Egypt. The government demanded that Apple disable …

Mobile data: Be careful what you wish for — The consensus around the industry seems to be that mobile data is starting to take off. Text messaging is still the leading data function, accounting for about 65% of total data revenue, according to Informa (link).

Adults and Video Games — Amanda Lenhart Sydney Jones Alexandra Rankin Macgill — More than half - 53% - of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online

Would You Pay Money to See Your Favorite Site Ad-Free? — Mike Vorhaus on Digital Communications — Since the early days of the web, consumers have been complaining about banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and all sorts of advertising. We constantly hear from consumers and from those who design websites …

Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform — Yahoo, the beleaguered web giant, is planning to launch a new program that essentially turns its email offering into a platform on which to run applications, much in the same way Facebook does, according to some of my sources.

Understanding HP Lab's Twitter Research — Left: The famed HP Labs think tank in Palo Alto. — A few months ago, I spent an entire day with the HP Labs group in Palo Alto, they're responsible for the R&D and innovation that goes into their thousands of technology products on the market.

Twenty 9th Graders from Georgia Take On Google — The Digiteen Dream Team, a group of passionate ninth graders who have been using Google's Lively as part of the Digiteen Project, are planning to protest this Wednesday against Google's decision to close down its virtual world environment, Lively, at the end of this year.

Computer scientists find audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack — The Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service is continuing to expand its effort to mix basic security and useful work. CAPTCHAs are the distorted text that helps various online services ensure that the entity opening …

Salesforce.com and Google expand alliance — Update at 11:01 a.m. with historical information on the alliance. — Salesforce.com and Google announced on Monday an expanded alliance, aiming to offer a set of developer tools and service around cloud computing applications.

The Way We'll Watch — Coming soon: DVDs that let you chat with friends watching the same movie. Kiosks that burn movies while you wait. Super-crisp movies in theaters. And more. — Get ready for a lot more ways to catch a movie. — Hollywood studios and tech companies are rolling …

Creative Vado HD available now for 720p recording — Creative's entry in the handheld HD video recording game, the 720p Vado HD, is now available in stores. We previously reported on the Vado a few weeks ago, a compact model with flip-out USB connector, bearing the same basic layout as the Flip Mino HD.

The Online Customer Is Spending Less — For all the significance attached to Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season on the day after Thanksgiving weekend, this year's numbers were hardly inspiring. Chase Paymentech's Cyber Holiday Pulse Index reported …

From signed up to satisfied — Getting new users is easy; keeping them is hard. Join Intercom co-founder Des Traynor as he explains how to bridge the gap between a company's initial traction and sustained success.